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Connecting to a SharePoint SubFolder without Root Directory Permission
Hi Anonymous ,
I'm a little confused about your sceanrio.
Is the colleague a member in your workspace?
In addition, what do you mean that connect without Root Directory Permission?
By my test, the member in my workspace also could get the data with the URL like below in power bi.
https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/cherry02
Besides, you could refer to this blog about connecting from SharePoint.
Best Regards,
Cherry
Hi Sorry for the slow reply v-piga-msft and thank you for responding. It seems I didn't explain my problem well enough. The link you provided appears to just go through the standard sharepoint connection using the parent location, which is not a problem.
Our SharePoint has folders such as:
https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/wholecompany/TeamA
https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/wholecompany/TeamB
https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/wholecompany/FinancialIn SharePoint - my colleague has access to the TeamA subdirectory, but not to the wholecompany parent location. Since Power BI asks for the parent location - does this mean that PowerBI cannot access these files? even though she does have access to the subdirectory?
I hope i have explained it a little better this time. Thank you!
It's been a while with no response - still looking for anyone who knows if this is possible or not :)
Im having the same problem. Any ideas anyone?!!!